skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/r/wsb is kind of insanity, but I’ve come to think that maybe young person can YOLO a bit against the odds somewhere in life. If something returns poorly on average, but has high payouts at the top it might just work out. Your life won’t be the average case but single sample.

Lottery is too improbable but some other things ”no rational person would do” can be ok. Main thing is to get over with it soon and protect the downside.

Of course if you get lucky you need to be contempt with the nice head start and switch strategy to doing the boring rational things. Not sure if these qualities are often found in one person.
Yes it does, the company can do a stock split and sell more shares.
That really depends on the goals. If they don't have any resources anyone wants and aren't going to do anything that upsets any other country then all of that is not really necessary/.
Thanks for the response :)
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When a business becomes serious? Do you need to hire several workers to look legitimate? If that's still not enough, do you need to make yourself a slave of VC?
Only problem I can see is that one man operation is susceptible to the run over by a bus scenario.
However that is still better than a woke VC asking the "owner" to cancel some users.
They need to buy the stock back and pay interest. They shorted the stock at say 20, or 30. Now they will have to buy it back at 90 and pay interest on it.

They have repeatedly resorted to market manipulation to drive the price down and cut their losses, but people are not selling, there do not exist enough shares for them to close their position. They screwed up royally, they doubled down, from 128% shorted stock to 140% shorted stock, then they resorted to blatant market manipulation, using the media and painting a false narrative.
Ask HN: (Why) do we often drop punctuation in messenger apps?
My daughter asked such question when they looked at my typing on my laptop. I have noticed the same pattern in my Markdown documentations too, which is bad.

What is the standard now?
I've done PG upgrades on a code base from ~7.x now through 11. For the most part it's pretty seamless, though there are occasionally backwards incompatible changes that pop up, but they're called out in the release notes.

The biggest bites have been changing the database driver from pypgsql to psycopg2 and there was a binary column default wire format change at the 9/9.1 upgrade. In another job, I've got essentially the same code running against 9.5 and 12, and I don't notice the difference.

Performance improvements for a feature are almost always 'free', but obviously your code isn't just going to start using CTEs if you haven't been using them.
Could you please expand on how you host a podcast and what software you use (or point to resources that can help)? I’m assuming you mean hosting the podcast audio files, not just RSS feeds to the episode files stored elsewhere. Thank you.
Roma begging in Europe is a lot more aggressive compared to the US where people usually just sit against the wall with a sign. They usually stop you from walking down the street and refuse to take no for an answer the first few times. And it repeats every single day if they set up near your work or apartment. It can also often be step 1 of a pickpocketing scam. Its not surprising that people were bothered enough to make this a law in the first place.
Well not 100%, I was talking about reputation. Most brands have certain attributes associated with them, for Boeing safety was one of those attributes. Just like reliability is an attribute you would associate with Toyota, but perhaps not with Renault..

I'm guessing that Boeing's good safety reputation had some root in reality, just like Toyota probably is a more reliable car than many other brands. Renault could be a very reliable brand now for all I know, but their reputation has already been shot, and that can be hard to recover from. Some brands really never recover, and just change their name; like LG did, GoldStar (their former name) was not associated with quality. The reason Boeing is changing the name of the MAX to 8 is similar, but a name change alone will not resurrect their image.

I'm sure at one point Boeing was a very safe plane, since I associate that brand with safety, but today perhaps Airbus is as safe (or even safer), but it's hard to shake off a reputation.
Mm I would argue that we have a fair understanding on how the hardware works (chemical processes). But we have not clue how things are controlled and how things work together.
Better Call Saul does exactly the same thing as you describe though. That show is relentless in knocking Saul down despite all his efforts to better his fortunes. But sometimes that's how life is.
By the way, does anyone know why it seems to be so difficult to print readable texts onto the packaging these days? I know orientation information can often be deduced from the orientation in the tape/reel, but is it really that hard to produce some more contrast?
It's tragicomic that this was part of the reason for Brexit, but they ended up with letting other countries fish in their waters anyways.
The amount of entitlement ringing through the comments on the issue is crazy. It really makes me frustrated to see as it just adds fire to putting companies off the idea of developing open source software.
How can I collect hospital data from Google Maps?
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Not directly. But driving up a company's market cap can make its stock more attractive to a potential acquisition target. Or it can simply sell shares of itself at the new, higher price.
Finding a toilet can be difficult if you are homeless…
The fundamental difference being: no human actively created forests hence no one could be held responsible (legally or morally) for what's being done there.

Edit: wording.
That grates on me too. I translate it as "Shut up and listen." which causes me to try to disengage from the speaker. Though, here it's aimed at a 3rd party, so it's not quite as offensive.
On a related note, I find it super interesting that people across many communities and forums report seeing eye sight improvements from daily use of VR headsets. Though it can take a while from those accounts I read, like average 1 hour a day for a year. In each case these people report not wearing glasses in the headset.
> [...] I'm not sure how much I should be blaming autotools versus the projects that use autotools.

I'd say that a large portion of the bad name that autotools currently have is due to their users. On one hand developers, who as you say do not actually use all the deductions of configure scripts,.
But also users (the ones who blindly type ./configure) are to blame a little. If you complain that you wait while configure checks to find whether your machine is 32 or 64 bits, etc., please read on how to specify "site defaults" once and then all your configure runs take a fraction of the time.
If you design an electricity grid to never partition, then you need to keep a substantial headroom of transmission equipment unused to prevent cascading failures leading to a partition in case of failure of just one or two sites.

Instead, an electricity grid should be able to survive any partition like this while still keeping all frequencies within the nominal range. The total cost of such a system is lower in most cases (you need more idling generation capacity or droppable load, but less transmission capacity)

The EU system here failed to do either here.
There is a public implementation [1] of the Firefox sync server, so you can host your own today.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
The thing is, third-party SDKs often do data collection on their own. Or, even if they don't, they could do so, and you don't really know if they do or not.
I found Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen to be an interesting take on this.
At least in this case, GameStop has filed to raise up to $100,000,000 through an ATM offering (selling shares to the public) [0]. So yes, the recent activity does help the company, in so far as GME is a company that can be helped by getting its hands on more cash.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000119312520...
There is applied science.
If you ignore places like Australia that locked down hard and early. Melbourne experienced a near total 3 month lockdown for example. The result? Pretty much zero local cases now and life back to normal, sans international travel.
Probably the 1 was an unidentified robot...
They have more disposable income than the median.
A lot of of heavily shorted stocks are up a ton recently. BBBY, GME, DDS, FIZZ, TR.
Thanks, but I doubt anyone would find it useful apart from the curiosity and novelty of it. It's neither optimized from a performance or development perspective and it lacks visual fidelity (my friends kept reminding me that it looked like Minecraft). I have some videos from way back demonstrating how making a scene could look like (everything was done in-engine):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUxVISIwAa4&feature=emb_titl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQ1_MIRMMc&feature=emb_titl...
Why do you say that? The app was founded in LA where I wouldn't describe the gay scene as vulnerable. Is the situation in Normay different?
To be pedantic, bike helmets are uncommon in bike safe countries like mine / NL.
Also, EU has a ruleset adapted to the climate of central Europe and not to cold places where almost no food grows and eating seals and fighting polar bears is how you stay alive. This is an extreme example, but Norway is more dependent on fish for sustenance than many other countries.
There's definitely room to be proactive here and build rather than complain but I think there's an issue to address beyond that. This is really anti-competitive behavior on a par with Microsoft's Embrace Extend Extinguish model[0].

Chromium filled a gap in the OSS market but, because it has non-free services baked in and provided without charge, it was able to outperform real FOSS alternatives. Removing access to those propriety features/services after the market has matured is like this leaves a much bigger gap that's much harder to fill than it would have been back when the market wasn't as mature.

I think we do need to roll-up our sleeves and focus on building/supporting better alternatives but it's also important to be able to call out where the playing-fields aren't level so we can better cheer on those Davids willing to take on Goliath.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Variant is almost synonymous to mutation here. Do you want to say the new variants didn’t come into being via mutation?
That setup would probably be illegal in many countries today. There's a lot of improperly secured equipment in that van. Even a relatively minor crash can get some of it flying around and crushing bones or killing someone.
If you need different profiles (like having different firefoxes installed, each with their own addons, themes, tabs, bookmarks, etc) you can use the built-in Profile manager [0]. I personally have a secondary profile for testing, with some test addons and different bookmarks.

If you only need different sessions (different cookies) you can use the official Multi-Account add-on [1]. I personally use it to be logged in simultaneously in two different accounts on sites where this is not possible (like GitHub).

[0] : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

[1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
There is no "they".

WSB is a public subreddit. Traders, pms, hedge fund guys all participate and win often bigger because they have more to play with. They pump and dump and ride the emoji rockets like everyone else.

There are only the winners, which include the $60k/yr nurse, the $600k/yr FAANG principal, and the $6M/yr Senior PM who timed their call options right.

And the losers which include the same but timed it wrong.

The engineers and finance folks who lost will have a bad week. The lower-middle income earners will have a bad year.
GitHub's annoying page load progress bar
Github is a tool for developers. Developers know that their page load progress bar (the blue line on top of the page) is fake: it does not show actual load status, it is a spinner that gives dressed up as load progress bar.

Recently the pull request overview page does not always load for me and then the progress bar's lie comes out: it did not load anything, but it did lie to me about it.

Github: please stop it. I'm a developer, I pay for your service and I do not appreciate being lied to. When your PR-page does not load show me an ugly "timed out" or "50x" page. Don't try to hide it, it comes off as disrespect for your rather smart user base.
Ah ok, I'm not overly familiar with the problem they're trying to solve really - wouldn't always be necessary depending on your application, but I was talking in broad ML terms, if you need a calibrated prediction at the end you do.
What's the impact on neovim?
I was reading about 'Nomad' from Hashicorp, which would seem to do this too
The weight estimate on that website has to be way off.

A male elephant can weigh up to 7 tons and they say that Titanosaurus would have weighed around 13 tons. Even with much lighter bones & co., at that size there's no way it would have weighed that little. A mammoth could weigh up to 12 tons, as another point of comparison.

A dinosaur like the one they depict would have weighed at least 50 tons, IMO.
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Think about this: if you were to blame yourself for that, should you also blame yourself for not investing more in the lottery?

Also: Are people who win big in the lottery smart? At the point were you left your best guess was that the chance of winning was extremely slim and the stakes were higher than you wanted. You did a perfectly rational thing. Don't blame yourself.
I am still a fan of the "proper grammar" we learned in school.

As to the issue of dropped punctuation and other grammar atrocities, thank SMS -- old school text messages.

Then came Twitter, and in the beginning they had a SMS-to-Twitter function (or something like it).

Last, shrinking devices and crappy typing experiences. T9 was amazing but inferior to a real keyboard. Today, all thumb-typing virtual keyboards are also crappy compared to a physical one. But lets be honest, who wants to carry around a full-sized keyboard just to community digitally with perfect Chicago-style [1] grammar?

[1] - https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
‘Time is running out’: Prince Harry calls for social media reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A... isn't quite that but is a fun take on the time traveller, by Mark Twain.
Grindr collects and share quite a lot. Things such as HIV status, sexual preferences, body type, advertising ids, or GPS coordinates. To third parties from the app, and not always using encryption.
This is a good reason to backup to a cloud provider on the other side of the planet :).
I wouldn't think it is really 'acceleration', just mass continuing at the same speed, when the aircraft and seat surrounding it might stop or change direction more suddenly. Relative speed change, but deceleration or change of aircraft speed, not acceleration of your head?
That's a great idea, a temporary solution to kick the habit.
Counter Point

$AMD was at $0.15, AMD was the only company besides Intel that actually had x86-64 patents. Intel would have never let AMD fail because they would be a monopoly and that is worse than leading a duopoly.

Notice the bean counter Intel ceo, the yields getting worse over time, the performance not improving besides a 1-2% year over year and Intel getting complacent, repeatedly to screwing over the customer with requirement of buying a new motherboard with every new release.

AMD was a steal for anyone in the know.

Counter argument 2:

Any price target posted by Citron was wrong.

Counter argument 3:

Why would any analyst give a proper price target when they can screw you over?
That is an appropriate argument, but afaik it's along the lines of Peloton's subscription pricing. Peloton's shown there's a clearly established market that will pay that sort of price for a home fitness service.
That integrity isn’t worth much if you can’t get hired.
So the ADB binary can be replaced silently by anything running as your user account?

But anything running as your user account can also steal your ssh keys and gain persistence via cron or .bash_profiles or any of a multitude of other methods. How does a writable ADB binary let an attacker do anything more than they could do before?
> eating seals and fighting polar bears is how you stay alive

Your image of Norway may be a bit off..

It's true though that Norway is overly protective of its food industry. And arguably for good reason since it wouldn't be competitive at all if integrated with the rest of Europe.
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You don't need autogen.sh for a release tarball - the whole point of autotools is to generate a configure script that in turn generates a Makefile from Makefile.am etc. for you.

However, if you're pulling a random commit from git rather than ungzipping a proper release tarball where autogen and co haven't been run on a dev system for release, then that workflow of course can't work.

Which is one of the points of the linked discussion - that folks clone from git rather than doing "proper" releases, with cloned repos increasingly bringing their dependencies with them. Another point being that modern "language ecosystems" a la Go and Rust have their own canonical package management and aren't really made for polyglot development and linking with locally installed libs.

I don't quite get the autotools hate; from a user PoV, it's the one build system that has worked extremely well over the decades with just POSIXly tools installed locally (make, sh, cc). The same can't be said for cmake. Not a particular fan of libtool, but arguably the invasive thing it does is a consequence of link-loaders such as ld.so still not getting lib resolution quite right in spite of ld.so'd heavy-handedness (Mac OS's is saner IMO). Another reality is that Docker builds are used to shield against lib breakage.

IMO, what could be done to simplify builds is not to bring a new grand-unifying builder a la cmake, but to find common ground among GNU and BSD make, make generic "make" more powerful such that Makefile macro expansion works in more places than it does now, and rely solely on Makefiles and POSIXly/LSBly C/C++ header/macro def discovery in your source files rather than relying on automake, config.h, and -DHAVE_XYZ. Then slowly deprecate autotools and restrict yourself to target the much more uniform landscape of Linux, BSDs, and Mac OS we have today.
"Virtue signaling," I think they call this particular brand of stupidity.

Take it somewhere else. It doesn't belong on a site called Hacker News.
And can fish without any external limit. See the pilot whales hunt in the faroe islands:
https://youtu.be/ws99HlPBySA
This fine is going to be a pain in the backside for Grindr.
I found that Job Postings are an exception. Google picks up on them, has a special API to submit them direct (due to slow crawling) and close them.

So long as you're a good actor that will get you far. If your data is low quality, wrong, error prone or otherwise you'll not get shown and will likely receive manual actions and end up in the Google proverbial sin bin.

I have found that incentives align for job postings.

That obviously doesn't prove that metadata is not flawed, just that there are areas where it seems to work well.
I don't see how the group links feature can work if that's 100% correct. You can't send someone a hyperlink to a phone. Unless these group links are some special protocol that does some sort of P2P link to the creator's phone (which would presumably then have to be on all the time for it to work).

More importantly than group links is what happens to Signal when someone realises that they can change people's public keys on a whim. Although the app is supposed to display a notification in that case, they can also change the app on a whim.

Fundamentally, I just do not see how Signal's social goals (which are laudable) are compatible with their chosen implementation. Marlinspike's arguments about centralisation vs decentralisation and the moving ecosystem are all valid yet in the end it doesn't matter. He identified a problem and basically ignored the where his chain of logic led, i.e. that he would need to figure out how to keep up with a moving ecosystem in a decentralised way. Otherwise, the end game is easy to anticipate: they bend and start swapping public keys silently, either due to police pressure, or pressure from internal activist employees, or pressure from Google/Apple.
I cannot speak for Norway specifically, but there is, as far as I know, not a single openly gay player in the (male!) Bundesliga. Apparently, even high-status, well-earning men in progressiv societies can be vulnerable to disclosure of their sexual preferences.
> makes the code as free as it can possibly get

Alas, the paradox of tolerance. Being 100% free for one generation means you frequently end up being 100% closed in a later generation. Being 99% free (“you can do anything except remove future users’ freedom”) is less pure, but it sticks.
Imagine if more people were allowed to contribute. Neovim is the horse to back, now.
Just curious: assuming it's not food, what kinds of things you need at least weekly? I thought at the start of this work-from-home that it'll at least make parcel receiving much easier. But turns out I already have almost everything I need or want so I get a delivery maybe every second month or so.
> energy isn't so much a technological concern as it might be a political concern

This is what irks me about these kinds of "collapse fantasy". Somebody described the apocalypse novels of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids etc) as "cosy catastrophe", and that very much applies here. The laser focus on technological detail-hoarding while having blinders on to any consideration of the politics of the situation, or what might be called "material conditions".

Historically few societies collapsed without external pressure. Societies do not collapse, they are collapsed. And the force that's doing the collapsing is the thing you need to worry about.

It also can take a very long time to wane; while Rome may have split from the Roman Empire in 395, the eastern successor Holy Roman Empire lasted until 1806. And the microstates provide even weirder examples, like the Maltese feudal knights with a WW2 air force!
Being gay can still get you arrested or killed in some countries of the world. Even if not, discrimination of gay people surely is a thing all over the world.

Besides that, dating apps of any kind should be held to very high data protection standards for the sometimes very delicate matters.
Is there any reason for the EU to close that loophole now ?

It seems to be a pretty good partnership so far, and I did not read anything about a will from either side to change anything about it yet, but I might be misinformed